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Alan R. White should not be confused with Alan White (American philosopher).
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Birth Date: | 1922 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Alan Richard White (9 October 1922 – 23 February 1992) was an analytic philosopher who worked mainly in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and, latterly, legal philosophy. Peter Hacker notes that he was "the most skillful developer of Rylean ... ideas in philosophical psychology" and that "if anyone surpassed Austin in subtlety and refinement in the discrimination of grammatical differences, it was White." Richard Swinburne remarks that "during the heyday of 'ordinary language philosophy' no tongue practised it better."[2]
Biography
Alan R. White (as he was usually cited)[3] was born in Toronto on 9 October 1922, the elder of two sons born to Irish emigrants George Albert White (1888–1940), an estate agent from Strabane, and Jean Gabriel (Kingston) White (1888–1957).[4] Following their parents' separation in the early 1930s, both brothers moved with their Catholic mother when she returned to her hometown of Cork (where she would work in the drapery trade). There they would be educated in the Protestant faith of their father as boarders at Middleton College until the sixth form. White then transferred to (the Catholic) Presentation College, Cork, to prepare for entrance to Trinity College, Dublin. Despite his religious schooling, within only a few years White would become, as academic colleague Paul Gilbert notes, "a keen atheist."
White was admitted to Trinity in 1941 with a junior exhibition and a sizarship in classics. During his time there he served as president of the University Philosophical Society.[5] [6] He graduated in 1945 with firsts in both classics and 'mental and moral science' (philosophy) . He is said. reports David J. Matheson, to have scored over 100 per cent in some of his exams by taking them in Irish, for which extra credit was given.[7] Other achievements during his time as an undergraduate included prizes for Hegelian philosophy and flyweight.boxing. That he was also "pugnacious" outside the ring is attested to by Trinity philosopher A. A. Luce who records that the two had "many a battle" when White was a student in his class.[8]
Also through this time, which coincided with "The Emergency" of World War II, White served with the Local Defence Force in the 42nd Dublin Rifle Battalion.[9] After graduation he remained at Trinity for a year to pursue further studies in classics and serve as a deputy lecturer in logic.
In 1946 White was appointed as an assistant lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the (then) University College of Hull,[10] the departmental staff initially consisting solely of himself and Professor T. E. Jessop. White obtained this position on the recommendation of Luce[11] who had contributed the "Inventory of the Manuscript Remains" to Jessop's A Bibliography of George Berkeley (1934).[12]
Prior to his arrival, Jessop had performed all the teaching duties for both philosophy and psychology. And though Hull's first dedicated psychology lecturer, George Westby, was appointed around the same time as White,[13] the latter would himself also teach psychology as well as philosophy students long after the college acquired university status in 1954 and two separate departments were formed. Ullin Place records that, with the "connivance" of White, Westby. a fellow Rylean, succeeded in making Hull's psychology department "a center for a distinctive amalgam of ordinary language philosophy and behavioral psychology" in its early years.[14] And Westby himself records White's "invaluable co-operation" in initiating and running the three-year "Philosophical Problems of the Sciences" course. The same having been intended to ensure psychology students appreciated "it is impossible to have a purely technical scientific language," [15] a thorough examination of 'Mental' concepts being, as White notes, a necessary preparation "even for those whose chief interest is in the science of psychology."[16]
Within the philosophy department, White progressed to the positions of Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer, succeeding Jessop to become the second Ferens Professor of Philosophy in 1961 (a post he retained until his early retirement in 1985). At Hull he would also serve as dean of arts (1969–71) and as pro-vice-chancellor (1976–79).
In 1958 White completed his PhD at the University of London under the supervision of A.J. Ayer, with a thesis on "The Method of Analysis In the Philosophy of G. E. Moore."[17] [18] That same year would see the publication of the fruits of this research in his first book G.E. Moore: a Critical Exposition.[19] [20]
White was a visiting professor at numerous American universities including the University of Maryland (1967–68, 1980), Temple University (1974), Simon Fraser University (1983), the University of Delaware (1986) and Bowling Green State University (1988).[21] He also became known to the first generation of 'third year' students of philosophy at the Open University, participating in a BBC televised discussion on perception[22] that was annually repeated as part of the 'A303, Problems of philosophy' correspondence course which ran from 1973 until 1981.[23] [24]
He also served as Secretary, and then president, of the Mind Association and as president of the Aristotelian Society.[25]
White retired to Nottingham, and was as appointed Special Professor of Philosophy at the university there in 1986.
In the last decade of his life, as Hacker notes, White worked on jurisprudential problems pertaining to action, intention, voluntariness, negligence and recklessness.[26]
He died at his home in Sherwood, Nottingham on 23 February 1992.
His papers, previously held in the Brynmor Jones Library, are now housed at the Hull History Centre.
A volume of White's selected papers, as edited by Constantine Sandis (who credits White's Grounds of Liability as "a huge influence")[27] with John Preston and David Dolby is forthcoming.[28] [29]
Works
Authored books/monographs
- G.E. Moore: a Critical Exposition, Oxford: Blackwell (1958)[30] [31] [32] [33] [34]
- Explaining Human Behaviour: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the University of Hull on 24 January 1962 (1962).[35] [36]
- Attention, Oxford: Blackwell (1964)[37] [38] [39] [40] [41]
- The Philosophy of Mind, New York: Random House (1967)[42] [43] [44] [45] [46]
- Truth, London: Macmillan (1970)[47] [48] [49] [50]
- Modal Thinking, Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1975)[51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56]
- The Nature of Knowledge, Totowa, Rowman & Littlefield (1982)[57] [58] [59]
- Rights, Oxford: Clarendon-Press (1984)[60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67]
- Grounds of Liability: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1985)[68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73]
- Methods of Metaphysics, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1987)[74] [75]
- The Language of Imagination (1990)[76] [77]
- Misleading Cases, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1991)[78] [79] [80]
Edited books
- The Philosophy of Action, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967 (Includes Introduction by White).[81]
Papers/book chapters
- "Conscience and Self-Love in Butler's Sermons," Philosophy, 27, No. 103. (Oct., 1952), pp. 329–344.
- "Mr. Hartnack on Experience," Analysis, 14, No. 1. (Oct., 1953), p. 26.[82]
- "A Note on Meaning and Verification," Mind, New Series, 63, No. 249 (Jan., 1954), pp. 66–69[83]
- "The Ambiguity of Berkeley's 'Without the Mind'," Hermathena, 83, 1954, pp. 55–65.
- "Mr Hampshire and Professor Ryle on dispositions," Analysis, April 1954; 14: 111-113[84]
- "Professor A.D Ritchie on empirical problems," Analysis, October 1955; 16: 14[85]
- "A Linguistic Approach to Berkeley's Philosophy," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 16, No. 2 (Dec., 1955), pp. 172–187
- "The use of sentences," Analysis. October 1956; 17: 1-4[86]
- "On Claiming to Know," The Philosophical Review, 66, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 180-192. (Reprinted in A. Phillips Griffiths (ed.), Knowledge and Belief, pp 100–111 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).[87]
- "Truth as Appraisal," Mind, New Series, 66, No. 263 (Jul., 1957), pp. 318-330[88]
- "Contrary-to-fact conditionals and logical impossibility," Analysis, October 1957; 18: 14-16[89]
- "The Language of Motives," Mind, New Series, 67, No. 266. (Apr., 1958), pp. 258-263.
- "Moore on a Tautology." Philosophical Studies, vol. 9, no. 1/2, (Jan.–Feb., 1958), pp. 1–4.
- "Moore's appeal to Common Sense", Philosophy, Vol. 33, No. 126 (Jul., 1958), pp. 221–239[90]
- "Synonymous Expressions." The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 32, 1958, pp. 193–207.
- "Belief Sentences." Mind, vol. 67, no. 268, 1958, pp. 527–532.
- "Keeping." Mind, vol. 68, no. 272, Oct., 1959, pp. 545–547.
- "The 'meaning' of Russell's theory of descriptions," Analysis, October 1959; 20: 8-9
- "Different kinds of heed concepts", Analysis,. April 1960; 20: 112-116
- "G. E. Moore,." in J. O. Urmson (ed.), The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy (London: Hutchinson, 1960). pp.273-5.
- "The Concept of Care" The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 10, Issue 40, July 1960, pp. 271–274,
- "Inclination," Analysis, December 1960; 21: 40-42
- "Thinking that and Knowing that",The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 11, Issue 42, January 1961, pp. 68–73,
- ."Meaning, Intentionality and Use," in: Atti del XII Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia (Venezia, 12–18 Settembre 1958) Vol. 4: pp. 377-384 (1961)[91]
- "Symposium: The Causal Theory of Perception" (with H. P. Grice), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 35 (1961), pp. 121–168. (Reprinted in G. J. Warnock (ed.), The Philosophy of Perception, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967)).
- "Carelessness, Indifference and Recklessness," The Modern Law Review. 24 (5): 592–595. (September 1961)
- "Attending and Noticing." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 63, 1962, pp. 103–126
- "Carelessness and Recklessness. A Rejoinder," The Modern Law Review, 25, No. 4 (Jul., 1962), pp. 437–441
- "Achilles at the Shooting Gallery," Mind, New Series, 72, No. 285 (Jan., 1963), pp. 141-142
- "The alleged ambiguity of 'see'," Analysis,. October 1963; 24: 1-5
- "The Notion of Interest," The Philosophical Quarterly, 14, No. 57 (Oct., 1964), pp. 319-327
- "G. E. Moore" in D. J. O'Connor (ed.), A Critical History of Western Philosophy (Glencoe: Free Press, 1964), pp.463-72.
- "Mentioning The Unmentionable," Analysis, March 1967; 27: 113-118 (Reprinted in K. T. Fann (ed.), A Symposium on J. L. Austin, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969)[92]
- "Negligence," in J. Macquarrie (ed.), A Dictionary of Christian Ethics, (London: SCM Press, 1968), pp.226-7.
- "The coherence theory of truth" In The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ed. Paul Edwards), London: Collier-Macmillan.1967 (reprinted in Truth).
- '"True" and "Truly"' Nous 2, No. 3 (Aug., 1968), pp. 247-251
- "On Being Obliged to Act" In (ed.) G.N.A. Vesey, The Human Agent, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures Volume 1, 1966-7, pp. 64-82 (Macmillan: 1968).
- "Seeing What is not There," In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 70, 1969/70, pp.61-74.[93]
- "What Might Have Been," in: Studies in the Theory of Knowledge, American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series, No. 4. ed. Nicholas Rescher, Basil Blackwell, 1970[94]
- "Inference," The Philosophical Quarterly, 21, No. 85 (Oct., 1971), pp. 289-302
- "Meaning and Implication," Analysis, 32, No. 1. (Oct., 1971), pp. 26–30.
- "The Propensity Theory of Probability," The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 23, No. 1 (Feb., 1972), pp. 35-43
- "Mind-Brain Analogies," Canadian Journal-of-Philosophy. June 1972; 1: 457-472
- "What we Believe," in: Studies in the Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series no. 6, N. Rescher (ed.), Basil Blackwell. 1972; 6: 69-84
- "The Inaugural Address: Certainty". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes. 46: (1972), pp. 1-18
- "Responsibility, Liability, Excuses and Blame," Studi Internazionali di Filosofia, 5, 1973
- "Can What is Known and What is Believed be the Same?" Hermathena, 118, 1974, 139-146
- "Chairman's Remarks," in: Stuart C. Brown (ed.), Philosophy of Psychology, (London: Macmillan, 1974), p. 325-330
- "Needs and wants," Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. July 1974; 8: 159-180
- "Trade Descriptions about the Future," Law Quarterly Review, 90, 1974, 15–20.[95]
- "Conceptual Analysis," In (eds. Charles. J. Bontempo and S. Jack Odell), The Owl of Minerva, New York : McGraw-Hill, 1975, pp. 103–117.
- "Intention, Purpose, Foresight, and Desire," Law Quarterly Review, 92, 1976, p. 569-590.[96]
- "Knowledge Without Conviction," Mind, New Series, 86, Issue 342, April 1977, pp. 224–236, collected in The Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 1 (1978) pp. 172–184[97]
- "The Identity and time of the Actus Reus," Criminal Law Review 48, 1977[98]
- "Dewey's Theory of Interest" in .Peters, R. S., (ed.), John Dewey Reconsidered, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977)
- "Privilege," The Modern Law Review, 41, No. 3 (May, 1978), pp. 299–311
- "Acquiring and possessing knowledge," Analysis, June 1978; 38: 129-131
- "Austin as philosophical analyst" Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie. 1978; 64: 379-399
- "Propositions and Sentences" pp. 22–33., "Belief as a Propositional Attitude" pp. 242–52., in G. W. Roberts (ed.), Bertrand Russell Memorial Volume, (Allen & Unwin, 1979),[99]
- "The Presidential Address: Shooting, killing, and fatally wounding," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 80, 1979–80, pp. 1–15.
- "Knowledge, Acquaintance, and Awareness," In Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein (eds.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume VI: The Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981), pp. 159–72.
- "An intentional fallacy in epistemology," Canadian Journal of Philosophy. September 1981; 11: 539-545
- "Rights and claims" (pp. 315–336) and "[Rights, Claims and Remedies: Reply to Professor MacCormick"] (pp. 359–366) Law and Philosophy, 1, No. 2, Selection from the Proceedings of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on the Philosophy of Law September 1979. (Aug., 1982),. Reprinted ([with concluding remarks] in ed. M.A. Stewart), Law, Morality, and Rights. Reidel: Dordrecht, 1983, pp. 139-60 & 189-98.
- "Doubting one's methods," Analysis. June 1983; 43: 133-134
- "Fact in the Law" in: W. L. Twining (ed.) Facts in Law (Wiesbaden, 1983) 108–19
- "Ways of speaking of imagination," Analysis. June 1986; 46: 152-156[100]
- "Common sense: Moore and Wittgenstein," Revue-Internationale-de-Philosophie. 1986; 40: 313-330
- "Do claims imply rights?," Law-and-Philosophy. December 1986; 5: 417-420[101]
- "Visualising and Imagining Seeing," Analysis, October 1987; 47: 221-224[102]
- '"By" and "By",' Analysis, 47, No. 4. (Oct., 1987): 239-240.
- "Discussions: 'Eine Vorstellung ist kein Bild',” Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 11, Issue 2, April 1988, pp. 151–155.
- "Imagining and Pretending," Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 11, Issue 4, October 1988, pp. 300–314.
- "As I remember…" The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 154, January 1989, pp. 94–97
- "Imaginary Imagining", Analysis, March 1989; 49: pp. 81–83[103]
- "Attempting the impossible". In R. Frey & C. Morris (Eds.), Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Law and Morals. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law, pp. 65–86,. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991 [104]
- "Suspicion," In: J. V. Canfield & S. G. Shanker (eds.), Wittgenstein's Intentions, (New York: Garland, 1992/3), pp. 81–6. [105]
Notes and References
- Hull Daily Mail, Friday 13 August 1948, p.2, "MARRIAGES WHITE —JARVIS.—At. All Saints Church. Hessle, on Aug. 12th, 1948, Alan R. White, B.A., University Col, Hull, eldest son of Mrs and the late Mr G. A. White, of Cork, Eire, to Eileen, only daughter of Mr and Mrs A. E. Jarvls, Oaklands-drive Hessle."
- News: Swinburne. Richard. 27 Feb 1992. Words and Wittgenstein. The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20210622055449/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74619113/alan-r-white-obituary/. 22 June 2021. 2021-06-22.
- though sometimes also cited as "A. R. White"
- White, Alan Richard (1922–1992), philosopher. https://web.archive.org/web/20210311002641/https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-65664 . 2021-03-11 . Gilbert. Paul. en. 2019-09-30. 2004. yes. Also available for loan/preview via the Internet Archive in ODNB Vol.58 (2004) pp.539-540 (Free registration required for volume loan.)
- Matheson, David J., "White, Alan Richard (1922—92)".(2005), in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (2006),
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- Web site: Stephen A. Burwood. University of Hull Department of Philosophy. A Brief History of the Department. unfit. https://web.archive.org/web/20021118090455/http://www.hull.ac.uk/philosophy/BRIEF_HI.HTM. 18 November 2002. 1 April 2021.
- Luce. A. A.. 1959. Review of G. E. Moore. A Critical Exposition. Hermathena. 93. 94. 23039142. 0018-0750.
- http://keithburgess-jackson.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/alan-r-white-1922-1992.pdf "Alan R(ichard) White."
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- Berman. David. 1977. A bibliography of the published writings of Dr A. A. Luce. Hermathena. 123. 17. 23040425. 0018-0750.
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- Place, U. T. (1992). "Behaviorism and behavior analysis in Britain: An historical overview." The ABA Newsletter, 15, 5–7.
- Westby, George (1966). "Psychology today: problems and directions," Bulletin of the British Psychological Society. 19 (65): 1–19. p.10
- WHITE, A. R. (1961): "Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology," . Mimeographed . Dept. of Philosophy, University of Hull. quoted in: Westby, George (1966). "Psychology today: problems and directions," Bulletin of the British Psychological Society. 19 (65): 1–19. p.10
- http://catalogue.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/files/u-daw.pdf Hull History Centre: Papers of Professor Alan Richard White
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- Book: Snowdon, Paul. Themes from G.E. Moore : new essays in epistemology and ethics. 2007. Oxford University Press. Susana Nuccetelli, Gary Seay. 978-0-19-153592-5. Oxford. G. E. Moore on Sense-data and Perception. 225130807. In 1958, the year of Moore's death, Professor A. R. White published his book G. E. Moore: A Critical Exposition. White's study, though now, presumably, rarely read, is extremely acute and based on a close reading of Moore's work as he knew it.. https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/660/1/P_Snowdon_Sense-data.pdf.
- Book: White, Alan R.. G. E. Moore; a critical exposition. 1958. Oxford, B. Blackwell. registration.
- Web site: White, Prof. Alan Richard, (9 Oct. 1922 – 23 Feb. 1992), Ferens Professor of Philosophy in the University of Hull, 1961–89 . 2021-03-12 . WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO . 2007 . en . 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U176201 . 978-0-19-954089-1 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210312113130/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-176201 . 12 March 2021 . dead.
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- Web site: Matravers. Derek. Cavedon-Taylor. Dan. Nothing but the best is good enough – an archive of a golden age. live. 2021-06-01. 3:16. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20201106113152/https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/nothing-but-the-best-is-good-enough-an-archive-of-a-golden-age . 6 November 2020 .
- Web site: A303 Problems of philosophy - Open University Digital Archive. 2021-06-01. www.open.ac.uk.
- https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb50-udaw Description of 'Papers of Professor Alan Richard White, c.1945-1992
- Book: Hacker, P. M. S.. Wittgenstein's place in twentieth-century analytic philosophy. 1997. Blackwell. 0-631-20098-3. Cambridge, Mass.. 314. Notes. 33207191. https://web.archive.org/web/20210530095118/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2oIQ9QXMAYagog?format=png&name=900x900. 2021-05-30. White, whose work has not had the influence it merits, was the most skilful developer of Rylean and, to a lesser degree, Wittgensteinian ideas in philosophical psychology. His early work Attention (1964) was a thorough, refined development of Ryle's remarks on ‘heed concepts' (see Concept of Mind, pp. 135-49), viz. attending, noticing, awareness, consciousness, realization, care, etc. His later The Nature of Knowledge (1982) was an equally exhaustive investigation of the concepts of knowledge, knowing how and knowing that, the objects of knowledge, and the relation of knowledge to belief. If anyone surpassed Austin in subtlety and refinement in the discrimination of grammatical differences, it was White. His linguistic imagination was, I think, unparalleled, and he applied it with great finesse to a wide range of problems. In the last decade of his life he also worked on jurisprudential problems pertaining to action, intention, voluntariness, negligence and recklessness (Grounds of Liability, an Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (1985) and Misleading Cases (1991).. P. M. S. Hacker. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2oIQ9QXMAYagog?format=png&name=900x900.
- Web site: 25 Constantine Sandis (Hertfordshire). Philosophy of Action. 2019-09-30.
- Web site: JMP Work in Progress. www.reading.ac.uk. 2019-09-30.
- Web site: John Preston (home page). sites.google.com. en-US. 2019-09-30.
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- Furlong. E. J.. 1963. Review of Explaining human behaviour. Hermathena. 97. 143–146. 23039592. 0018-0750.
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- White's treatment of 'recklessness' therein is a 'point of departure' in: Winslade, William J. "Recklessness." Analysis, vol. 30, no. 4, 1970, pp. 135–140.
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- Wolfe. Julian. March 1968. The Philosophy of Mind. By Alan R. White, Random House: New York, 1967. Pp. 178. $1.95.. Dialogue. en. 6. 4. 628–629. 10.1017/S0012217300034326. 170360892. 0012-2173.
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- Welbourne. Michael. 1983. The Nature of Knowledge By Alan R. WhiteTotowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, viii + 133 pp., $17.50. Philosophy. en. 58. 225. 416–417. 10.1017/S0031819100068583. 1469-817X. 3750786. 171041744 . registration.
- Trainor. Paul. 1984-08-01. The Nature of Knowledge. By Alan R. White. 2021-04-01. The Modern Schoolman. 61. 3. 208. en. 10.5840/schoolman198461352.
- Harrison. Jonathan. 1985. Recent Work in Epistemology. The Philosophical Quarterly. 35. 138. 95–104. 10.2307/2219555. 0031-8094. 2219555. Professor White tells us that his book is about the nature of knowledge, rather than about claims to knowledge. The chapter headings, “The Objects of Knowledge”, “The Extent of Knowledge”, “Criteria of Knowledge” and “Theories of Knowledge”, however, make its coverage look wider than it is, By “the objects of knowledge”, for example, White does not mean such things as mathematics or science, but the different words and phrases that can follow the verb ‘know', like ‘who', ‘what', ‘how', ‘the colour of” ‘French', ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol', ‘a man to be honest', ‘that the battle was lost'. By talking of the extent of human knowledge White might be expected to be discussing whether it extends to knowledge of the past, the future, other minds, the existence and attributes of the deity, or metaphysics. In fact he is mainly concerned with whether anything that can be believed can also be known, or whether those things which can be believed cannot be known [...] Within its self-imposed limits Professor White has written a clear, concise, well organised, witty, sensitive, elegant, subtle, original and enlightening account of the nature of knowledge..
- Tettenborn. Andrew. 1985. Review of Rights. The Cambridge Law Journal. 44. 1. 174–176. 10.1017/S0008197300114680. 0008-1973. 4506725. 146676134. registration.
- Miller. David. David Miller (political theorist). 1985. Review of Rights.. Mind. 94. 375. 474–476. 10.1093/mind/XCIV.375.474. 2254818. 0026-4423.
- MacKinnon. Barbara. 1986. Right. By Alan R. White. The Modern Schoolman. 63. 3. 230–232. 10.5840/schoolman198663341. 0026-8402.
- Bowie. Norman E.. 1986. Review of Rights. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 47. 1. 165–168. 10.2307/2107735. 0031-8205. 2107735. registration.
- Bickenbach. Jerome E.. 1986. Rights By Alan R. White Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1984, viii+186 pp., £12.50. Philosophy. en. 61. 235. 128–130. 10.1017/S003181910001963X. 170371915 . 1469-817X.
- Morris. Christopher W.. Christopher W. Morris. 1986-01-01. Rights. Alan R. White. Ethics. 96. 2. 417–418. 10.1086/292758. 0014-1704.
- Regan. Tom. Tom Regan. 1989. Review of Rights.. Noûs. 23. 1. 112–114. 10.2307/2215834. 2215834. 0029-4624.
- Leaman. Oliver. 1986. Review of Grounds of Liability: An introduction to the Philosophy of Law; Rights, Alan R. White. ARSP: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie / Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. 72. 4. 568. 23679795. 0001-2343.
- Waldron. Jeremy. Jeremy Waldron. 1 January 1987. Grounds of Liability: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law.. The Philosophical Quarterly. 37. 146. 116. 10.2307/2220069. 2220069. 0031-8094.
- Tettenborn. Andrew. 1986. Review of Grounds of Liability. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. The Cambridge Law Journal. 45. 1. 151–152. 10.1017/S0008197300115946. 0008-1973. 4506846. 145406773. registration.
- Gavison. Ruth. Ruth Gavison. 1986. Grounds of Liability: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. By Alan R. White [Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985, 125 pp.]]. Israel Law Review. en. 21. 2. 220–224. 10.1017/S0021223700009067. 149845732 . 2047-9336.
- Bogart. J. H.. 1987. Review of Grounds of Liability: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. Ethics. 97. 3. 673–674. 10.1086/292882. 2381195. 0014-1704. registration.
- Duff, R. A., (1986) "Alan R. White, Grounds of Liability: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law" [Review], Philosophy in Review 6 (6):316-318 (1986)
- Menlowe. Michael A.. 1987. Grounds of Liability: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. Philosophical Books. en. 28. 1. 51–54. 10.1111/j.1468-0149.1987.tb01984.x. 1468-0149.
- Thomas, Janice (1989) 'Alan R. White, "Methods of Metaphysics."' Philosophy in Review Vol 9 No 2 (1989): February
- Genova. A. C.. 1989. Methods of Metaphysics. Teaching Philosophy. 12. 1. 53–56. 10.5840/teachphil198912111. 0145-5788.
- Bates. Stanley. 1991. The Language of Imagination. Philosophical Books. en. 32. 3. 174–176. 10.1111/j.1468-0149.1991.tb02291.x. 1468-0149.
- Hannay. Alastair. Alastair Hannay. 1991-04-01. Book Reviews. The Philosophical Quarterly. 41. 163. 245–247. 10.2307/2219599. 2219599. 0031-8094.
- Glazebrook. P. R.. 1991. Review of Misleading Cases. The Cambridge Law Journal. 50. 3. 542–544. 10.1017/S0008197300016330. 0008-1973. 4507593. 144184236. registration.
- Smith. J. C.. John Cyril Smith. 1991. Misleading Cases by Alan R. White. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, 134 + (bibliography and index) 10pp (hardback £25.00). - Misleading Cases by Alan R. White. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, 134 + (bibliography and index) 10pp (hardback £25.00).. Legal Studies. en. 11. 3. 338–342. 10.1111/j.1748-121X.1991.tb00047.x. 148604999 . 0261-3875.
- Gorman. J. L.. 1992. Misleading Cases. Philosophical Books. en. 33. 4. 255–256. 10.1111/j.1468-0149.1992.tb00729.x. 1468-0149. https://web.archive.org/web/20211209015928/https://ur.booksc.eu/ireader/9617991. 9 December 2021.
- Simpson. Evan. March 1969. The Philosophy of Action. Edited by Alan R. White. Oxford Readings in Philosophy series. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 172. $1.30.. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie. en. 7. 4. 687–688. 10.1017/S0012217300030912. 170345611. 1759-0949.
- being a brief note of reply to: Hartnack, Justus. "Remarks about Experience." Analysis, vol. 13, no. 5, 1953, pp. 117–120.
- being a rejoinder to: Evans, J. L. "On Meaning and Verification." Mind, vol. 62, no. 245, 1953, pp. 1–19.
- being a response to: Hampshire, Stuart. "Dispositions." Analysis, vol. 14, no. 1, 1953, pp. 5–11.
- being a brief reply to: Ritchie, A. D., "The ‘Gambler's Fallacy,'" Analysis, Volume 15, Issue 2, December 1954, Pages 47–48
- a response to: Ryle, Gilbert. "Ordinary Language." The Philosophical Review, vol. 62, no. 2, 1953, pp. 167–186.
- a response to: Woozley, A. D. "Knowing and Not Knowing." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 53, 1952, pp. 151–172 also reprinted in Knowledge and Belief.
- responded to in: Mayo, Bernard. "Truth as Appraisal." Mind, vol. 68, no. 269, 1959, pp. 80–86, and Khatchadourian, Haig. "Truth as Appraisal." Mind, vol. 71, no. 283, 1962, pp. 387–391.
- a reply to: Watling, John. "The Problem of Contrary-to-Fact Conditionals." Analysis, vol. 17, no. 4, 1957, pp. 73–80, both being briefly discussed in 'Reviewed Works', Freudenthal, Hans. The Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 33, no. 2, 1968, p. 311.
- free to read online at JSTOR with registration
- Book: Pieper, Vincenz. Philologische Erkenntnis: Eine Untersuchung zu den begrifflichen Grundlagen der Literaturforschung. 2019-09-02. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 978-3-11-062590-5. de.
- a reply to Searle, J, (1966) "Assertions and Aberrations" in British Analytical Philosophy. Bernard Williams and Alan Montefiore.(eds.), also reprinted in Fann (1969) (the latter collection also being a title White reviewed for The Philosophical Quarterly)
- Book: Emmett. Kathleen. Perception: An Annotated Bibliography. Machamer. Peter. 2017-04-07. Routledge. 978-1-315-53315-5. en. Discussion of Anscombe's view that perceptual verbs are intentional. White counters this with a distinction between elliptical and non-elliptical- uses of words to explain the apparent divergent senses of perceptual terms which Anscombe's thesis was introduced to explain..
- Tallon. Liam. June 1971. [Review] Studies in the Theory of Knowledge. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series, No. 4. Edited by Nicholas Rescher. . .]. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie. en. 10. 2. 384–386. 10.1017/S0012217300050241. 170406120. 1759-0949. Easily the most difficult but perhaps the most significant of [these essays] is “What Might Have Been”, in which Alan R. White examines the relations of could have, may have, and might have, three concepts which embody aspects of the wider notion of possibility. Professor White notes that the question whether someone could have done other than what he did in fact do is central to the problem of freewill and determinism, just as the question whether something may have or might have happened other than what is believed to have happened is central to the thesis of scepticism. Part of his purpose in writing the essay is to help clarify such problems. Anyone at all interested in possibility or its cognates will benefit not only from White's positive views on the subject, but also from his criticisms of the views of other writers, including G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, and Norman Malcolm..
- see Grounds of Liability "Future Truths"
- see "Intention" in Grounds of Liability p.72-91 (and, also, "Austin as philosophical analyst" p.390-394
- Book: The philosopher's annual. Volume 1. 1978. 1978. B. Blackwell. Oxford . 978-0-631-10281-6. Knowledge Without Conviction. https://archive.org/details/isbn_0847661059/page/172/mode/2up. registration.
- see "The nature of the Actus Reus" in Grounds of Liability for discussion of related matters
- "unfortunately the notion of a proposition was one of Russell's more kaleidoscopic notions, as Alan R. White has shown." Dejnozka, J. "The ontological foundation of Russell's theory of modality". Erkenntnis 32, 383–418 (1990).
- rejoinder: Newton, Natika. "Visualizing Is Imagining Seeing: A Reply to White." Analysis, vol. 49, no. 2, 1989, pp. 77–81,
- a reply to: Stoljar, Samuel. "White on Rights and Claims." Law and Philosophy, vol. 4, no. 1, 1985, pp. 101–114.(the same being a rejoinder to White's "Rights and Claims")
- rejoinder: Newton, Natika. "Visualizing Is Imagining Seeing: A Reply to White." vol. 49, no. 2, 1989, pp. 77–81, replied to in White's "Imaginary Imagining"
- a response to Newton, Natika. "Visualizing Is Imagining Seeing: A Reply to White." Analysis, vol. 49, no. 2, 1989, pp. 77–81 (the same being a criticism of White's "Visualising and Imagining Seeing")
- Dolinko. David. 1993. Review of Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Law and Morals.. Ethics. 103. 2. 401–403. 10.1086/293513. 2381540. 0014-1704.
- "In a brief, obscure, and entirely unheralded paper ... Alan White has argued there are reasons to doubt that suspicion should be classified as a weak form of belief. White contends that whereas belief does not admit of degrees, suspicion clearly does. ... White argues that unlike suspicions, which can be more or less strong, holding a belief is a digital concept – a belief is either held or it is not. Any variance in the strength of a belief is actually a variance in the conviction with which one holds the belief ... By contrast, suspicion itself clearly admits of degrees ... Unlike beliefs, it is the suspicion itself that comes in degrees rather than some additional quality attaching to the suspicion." Levi, Benjamin; Loeben, Greg (2004-07-01). "Index of suspicion: feeling not believing". Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 25 (4): 277–310..
- Web site: Works by White, Alan R. . PhilPapers. en. 2019-09-30.
- "an amusing and informative paper that argues, first, that suspicion, unlike belief, does admit of degrees (p. 81), and second, that suspicion is not a belief but is, roughly, an inclination to believe (p. 86)." [Review "Wittgenstein's Intentions"] Mcdonough, Richard (1995), Dialogue p.420 [105]
A listing of White's publications that includes Reviews can be found at PhilPapers.[106]
External links
- "Prof Alan R. White," obituary, The Times, 7 March 1992, p. 15,
- "Words and Wittgenstein," obituary, The Guardian, 27 February 1992, p. 35, by Richard Swinburne
- "Perception" - 1972 filmed discussion between Professors Alan R. White and Rodney J. Hirst hosted by Prof. Godfrey Vessey for The Open University.
- ‘A Brief History of the Department', (by Stephen A. Burwood) University of Hull Department of Philosophy (Archived by Wayback Machine)
- Imagination and imagery Open University excerpts from The Language of Imagination, ch.12, pp. 88–92
- "Imagining and supposing" - Open University excerpts from The Language of Imagination, ch.16, pp. 137–8, 141–2